ESU student held up Wednesday, police see a pattern

An East Stroudsburg University student was held up by armed robbers near campus Wednesday evening.

In a campus safety alert to students around 10 p.m., University Police acknowledged that the attack resembled another robbery that occurred in late September and is still unsolved..

Wednesday's incident occurred around 6:15 p.m. at the intersection of Kistler and Penn streets.

The victim told police that four males followed him from a parking lot near the Reibman Administration Building. When he left campus, they asked to borrow his phone, but he said he didn't have one. One of the robbers then displayed a firearm and demanded the victim's wallet.

The others then grabbed his book bag, at which point the victim fled the scene.

The robbers then headed in the direction of Prospect Street.

The victim described the robbers as four dark-skinned males, 16-19 years old. Each was wearing dark clothing with one wearing a dark blue vest, one wearing a red hoodie and a third wearing a dark baseball cap.

Police said that the robbery resembled another recent strong-armed robbery. On September 29 four teens matching the victim's description stole a student's iPod after striking him in the face.